Friday, July 16, 2010

The Art of Couponing

For the past several months I have been trying to turn over a new leaf. A money saving leaf. In my 24 years of married life I have never used coupons on a regular basis. But at the first of the summer I started seeing the facebook money saving posts of my friend Houston Coupon Boyand I decided it was time to try again. So I took a couple of couponing classes, and got a newspaper subscription for 5 Sunday papers. (Hey, I'm from Texas--we do everything BIG!) I started clipping, and saving money. It felt really great! I got excited about the great buys I found and would talk about how much stuff I got for how little of money. I was becoming a couponing nerd.

And then reality hit. I didn't mind using the coupons or looking for the bargains. But after a few weeks the sight of this:

I just wanted to doing this:

Why? Well Let's face it, instead of doing this:

I'd rather being doing something like this:

I had burned out on couponing! My coupons sit unclipped longer each week (right now I'm two weeks behind). And on more than one occasion I have thought seriously about cancelling my newspaper subscriptions. I love the money I save when using coupons, but I absolutely hate how long it takes every week to clip those stupid coupons and was about to declare my couponing experience over.

But that all changed today. I subscribe to a few couponing blogs that send me updates about the bargains they have posted on their sites. While catching up on my couponing emails I discovered a post from Saving With Shellie that has me back in couponing bliss. Shellie's ORGANIZATION TIPS describe a system that has you file each week's coupons together and then only clipping the coupons you will use. Hallelujah! I think I just found the solution to my hate of clipping coupons. Can't wait to try this new system out.

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I am a Texas Mama who loves art, travel, and most of all spending time with my family. I am fun and creative, and more than a little disorderly. But as A. A. Milne said, "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." So let the discoveries begin!